The Long Excuse

Original title: Nagai iiwake

2016
2h 4m

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Eri Fukatsu, Masahiro Motoki, Keiko Horiuchi, Pistol Takehara, Kenshin Fujita, and Tamaki Shiratori in The Long Excuse (2016)

A recently widowed writer whose wife died in a bus crash comes to terms with his grief, or lack of it, in caring for the children of a working man who also lost his wife in the same accident... Read allA recently widowed writer whose wife died in a bus crash comes to terms with his grief, or lack of it, in caring for the children of a working man who also lost his wife in the same accident.A recently widowed writer whose wife died in a bus crash comes to terms with his grief, or lack of it, in caring for the children of a working man who also lost his wife in the same accident.

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7.1/10

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Awards
- 4 wins & 4 nominations

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Ombra mai fu
from the opera "Xerxes"
Written by Georg Frideric Haendel
performed by Aoi Teshima

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9/10

"...When someone treasures you, you just don't toss them away..."

"The long excuse" is a beautiful film about not taking any kind of relationship for granted, whether it be between lovers or simply between friends. The worse part is that we only face it when one is gone.

Writer and director Miwa Nishikawa paints a beautiful portrait of how a famous Japanese writer disregarded his relationships with his wife, his friends and his work. The film is an intense meditation on our choices in life: single or married, having children or not, going to school or just work and respect for others. Only when the central character is faced with a broken family and realized the effects of the loss of a mother on her husband and children, does he reflect on his own choices in life.

Amazing performances by the entire cast and excellent work by director Miwa Nishikawa.